I got this cough before the boy was born
A keepsake from when we kept the nations warm
Now this place is one long sunset
So pass me another cigarette.

Everyone wanted to be one of the 28
We marched to the church and a different State
Today we laid the last trombone to rest
So pass me another cigarette.

Trapped between
The old world and the new
Trapped between
The facts and the truth
Trapped between
The City and the State
Trapped between
The flood and the floodgate
Trapped between
The pride and the fall
Trapped between
The show and the curtain call.

Who we were you can't understand
A man knew his place, but the place knew the man
But this town has no memory, yeah the town forgets
So just pass me another cigarette.

We got trapped between
The old world and the new
Trapped between
The facts and the truth
Trapped between
The City and the State
Trapped between
The flood and the floodgate
Trapped between
History and change
Trapped between
Nostalgia and rage.

Here come those tranquiliser lies
That everything was perfect when we worked down the mines
Or that the jobs that are left won't soon be automated
While teachers are trained to stop our kids getting too creative

Sell me your dream of more of the same
And ask me if I want to leave or remain
Travel, they say, is fatal to prejudice
But if you stick us in a box then what you get is this.

We got trapped between
The old world and the new
Trapped between
The facts and the truth
Trapped between
The City and the State
Trapped between
The flood and the floodgate
Trapped between
History and change
Trapped between
Nostalgia and rage.

Well I'm not going to do it anymore
Not going to fight this uncivil war
'Cos it's the complex harmony I most recollect
So this is gonna be my last cigarette.

Won't get trapped between
The old world and the new
Trapped between
The facts and the truth
Trapped between
The City and the State
Trapped between
The flood and the floodgate
Trapped between
History and change
Trapped between
Nostalgia and rage.